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Where rewget earns its keep
rewget is not a scraper and it is not a general HTTP client. It is a download tool for the specific, common problem of a site blocking a plain client that a browser would sail through. These are the jobs it was built for.
Continuous integration
CI & release mirroring
Stop CI from flaking when a shared runner IP gets a 403 fetching a dependency or release tarball.
Read the walkthrough → Protected downloadsDownloads behind Cloudflare or a JS challenge
Fetch a file from a site that serves a JavaScript challenge instead of the file to plain HTTP clients.
Read the walkthrough → Data engineeringBulk dataset & mirror fetching
Pull many files across many hosts where a subset fingerprint TLS, without probing every host from scratch.
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